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What about cross-training. Just run or do calisthenics or lift. Don't throw any kicks or punches for a while. You may be surprised how fast you would want to get back into it.

Movies are the bomb. A good movie can get you in the mood like nothing else. Also if you don't want to work out- don't. A few days of rest can do miracles.

Negatives, negataive, negatives. Do a bench press with a barbell or dumbells as much weight as you can. You will get there.

Short story. One young black belt was fighting a middle aged yellow belt. the yellow belt scored, knocking the black belt down. When the black belt got up, he said "wow, I am embaraced" a yellow belt hit me. The yellow belt pointed to the material around his waist and answered "this did not hit you, I did" I guess the moral of this story is clear.

"Tightening in the hips" is the same as " make me some food" What do you want to eat? What do you mean by tightening? Which muscle or at least where? Different muscles require different stretches. Also it can be joint or cartilage or tendons or ligaments or lyme's or many other things. Get a professionals opinion.

Arnica can be taken homeopathically externally and internally. External it's often a gel. Iternal it's in form of sugar pellets. Also try bromelain and other enzymes internally they speed up healing and decrease inflammation.

Have you tried defensive side kicks agains thrown 20 lbs medicine balls. That is fun lol

When you throw this strike, what do you make contact with. Since this is an effective technique I got interested in it. I heard people say that you should strike with the tip of the elbow. ON the other hand from my experience with breaking, the whole forearm seem more usefull. The forearm strike doesn't have the rotation of the tip strike, but it makes up in forward movement and less chances of self injury. So what part of the elbow/forarm would you hit with?

After ice, massage it and heat it. Moist heat pad will be good. Also Arnica and rest.

Develop your weakness and exell on your strength. Or something like that.

Hand stand push ups. Some upside down yoga exercises. Which part of the traps are you looking for?

Flexibility is the key to what? I am flexibile, so I am not bashing flexibility. But I don't think it's the end all for success.

IF you do them to failure, and are sore then next day. Than do every other day. If you only do a few sub maximal sets, than you can do them every day. But still take time to build up to that.

Strength in the wrist helps. If you have a strong wrist, you can prevent the aggrevation of the problem. Just do some google searches and you will get allot of wrist exercises. Those will help you stay in martial arts.

No one knows what mine is. He is that good.

I a have a wonder in this. I train all three complex leg exercises. Dead lift, squat and lunge. Usually I do Squat, than dead lift, than lunge. If you could lift 1000 lb on only one of this, which one would it be? I guess I am asking which one has the biggest correlation to martial arts. Break it into grappling and stand up if nessassary. Thanks

Guys, I don't mean to be rude, respect is nice and everything, but....... You are still a consumer. You can walk if you like. Instructors know that. If you don't like something speak up.

I say warm up the joints, than run around, than do Yoga's sun solutations. You just warmed up everything you needed to.

What do you carry to the gym with you? In my hood: a gun.

A bullet can be a avoided by raising your hands up or wearing a bullet proof west.

I just see it difficult to roll around with 300 lb mass. Fat or muscles. If you are on the top and have a chance to apply a lock or a hold it good. But what if he is on the top. Also what happens after the lock is applied? IF you break him, you will face legal consequences. IF you let him go, you are in square one.

GRappling with a 300 lbs attacker?

When I said wind up, I did not mean to pull back and than go forward. I meant you are always winded up, the potential energy is already stored in the muscles. That's why arms are flexed. But you "unwind" the hips and torso, which accelerates the arm, which throws the hand out. The body is still behind the punch, but you don't want to "push" your punch. It's not one handed summo wrestling, it's an explosive shot. I guess my English is getting in a way.

Here is the concept of throwing. We throw a kick or throw a punch. We don't bring it there, we throw it. How do you throw something? you wind up, you let it go and it just goes on it's own. The same should be with a punch for instance. YOu accelerate the body, and the arm just follows, and the hand shoots out. Many people bring the hand to the target, they don't throw it. I am sure I am not the first to think of it, but it's nice to write this down. What do you guys think?